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A. M; BILLSTE'EN.

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Patented. Feb. 19, 191 s.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1918.

Application filed March 10, 1915. Serial N o.-1 3,386.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON M. BILLSTEIN, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Riderwood, Baltimore county, Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements 1n boxes and particularly to paper boxes adapted for the sale of candies or small articles which are sold in relatively inexpensive packages. The ob ect of the invention is to provide a box of the character referred to which will be inexpensive of construction and which is provided with means adapting it for use as a toy, it including parts by which a plurality of different pictures may be displayed by sllght manipulation of a member.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective new of a box constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the box showing the picture bearing member in a slightly different position from that represented in Figs. 1 and 2;

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view through the box with the parts arranged as in Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a plan of tne blank from which the box illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 is formed;

Figs. 6 and 7 are elevations of part of the box showing the picture dlsplaying member in other positions.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the particular embodiment of the invention illustrated is a folding paper box formed from a single blank or sheet 1.. The section of the blank which when folded constitutes the front of the box is provided with an extension 2 which extends upwardly above the top of the body of the box and may be provided on its forward face with suitable advertising matter.

The closure for the upper end of the box is provided with an extension 3 on one face of which are printed a plurality of sectional pictures, adapted to be successively displayed through slots 4 provided in the body of the front wall of the box as shown. In the embodiment of the invention illustrated,

width or height of the bar like portions 5 of the box separating the apertures or slots 4. 'It will be seen that when the top closure of the box is in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which the extension 3 thereof is projected into the body of the box,

its maximum extent, one of the pictures will be displayed through the apertures or slots 4, and when said closure is given a slight outward movement or the parts are positioned as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the other picture on said extension 3 will be displayed, the previously exposed picture being concealed by the wall of the box. By imparting slight longitudinal movement to the extension 3, the pictures can be alternately displayed, the general efl'ect being that of moving pictures. As the closure is further withdrawn, other changes such as represented in Figs. 6 and 7 may be obtained, theconstruction shown providing for four different views.

The character of pictures, and the number of slots or apertures 4 may be varied within wide range,and it will be seen that the invention provides a very simple box adapted to be also employed as a toy which enhances the selling value of the articles or commodities placed therein.

The apertures 4 are preferably not produced entirely at the time of cutting the blank, but the outlines thereof are delineated by heavy scoring 7, the portions within said score lines being subsequently removed either by a dealer or purchaser.

The manner in which the box is formed from the blank shown in Fig. 5 will be readily understood.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

A combined receptacle and'toy compris'-' ing a box having a plurality of apertures formed in a side wall, and a closure for the box having an extension which when the box is closed is positioned entirely therein to extend across and completely close said apertures, the outer face of said closure ex- ED STATES PATENT nron.

tensiohbeing pi'oi ided with a phiral ity of I n testirhohy whereof affix signafiure V sectional pictures, the sections of'difierent in presence of two Witnesses.

p ictu regs being-soz related that when thevcloi; sure is moved to al clfrxml closed position the said pictures will be successively dis- Witnesses:

.' played through the apertures in thesi de wall EDGAR A; LEVI,

of the box. H o H RRY E. NlcnoLsoz; 

